Tas. 7408. 
SAINTPAULIA IonantHa. 
Native of Eastern tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. GusnERACEHZ.—Tribe CyRTANDRER. 
SarntpauLis, Herm. Wendl. in Wittmack Gartenflor. vol. xlii. (1893), p. 322, 
t. 1391, and Abdbild. 66, 
SaintPautra tonantha; acaulis, hirsutula, foliis petiolatis ovato-v. oblongo- 
cordatis obscure crenatis apice obtusis v. rotundatis, pedunculis radicalibus 
ascendentibus, floribus paucis cymosis nutantibus, alabastris pendulis, 
sepalis 5~7 linearibus obtusis, corolle extus pubescentis tubo brevissimo, 
limbo subrotato violaceo 2-labiato, labio superiore bilobo lobis rotundatis 
inferiore paullo majore 3-lobo lobis obovato-rotundatis, staminibus 2 
ore constricto corolle insertis, filamentis crassiusculis, antheris conniven- 
tibus reniformi-rotundatis apicibus cohwrentibus, staminodiis 2 minimis 
posticis, disco angusto annulari, ovario-oblongo 1-loculari hirsuto, 
placentis intrusis contiguis furcatis secus ramos revolutos ovuliferis, 
stylo brevisculo gracili, stigmate simplicii. 
Sarntraviia ionantha, Herm. Wendl.; in Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. (1894), p. 
13, f. 1; in Rev. Hort. Belg. (1894), p. 109, ewm Ic. Neub. Garten.-Mag. 
(1894), p. 362, fig. 97. 
It does not often happen that a plant newly introduced 
into Europe can claim the honour accorded to the subject 
of this plate, of being within two years of its flowering 
figured in five first-class horticultural periodicals. Over 
and above its attractiveness it is interesting as being one 
of the few ornamental plants that have been introduced 
from the hilly regions of Eastern tropical Africa. /It was 
discovered by Baron Walter von Saint Paul, whose father, 
Hofmarschal Baron St. Paul, of Fischbach in Silesia, 
President of the Dendrological Society of Germany, has 
kindly sent me the following account of its habitats, &e. : 
—“ The Saintpaulia was discovered by my son, who lives 
in East Africa, where he owns plantations of Vanilla and 
India-rubber trees. It was found in two localities; one 
about an hour from Tanga, in wooded places, in the 
fissures of limestone rocks, as well as in rich soil with 
plenty of vegetable matter. This place is not more than 
fifty to one hundred and fifty feet above the sea level. 
The second place is in the primeval forest of Usambara, 
APRIL Ist, 1895, 
